Cashleigh

I don't know how the rest of you are getting the new fix to work on your ipads but it is not working on mine. I did a reboot, I cleared the cache in safari, I even stuck my tongue out on the rightside instead of the left but still can't get it working. I have to tap on the cache icon several times and it might open the info bubble. Then when I tap the cache bubble it jumps across the page. Doesn't matter where in the bubble I tap. Andt then sometimes it just disappears. I know nothing about programming and bug fixes but the features that we use to have when we used google map are not there any more and I sure do miss them. I thank you for your continued efforts in trying to get these problems solved.

I too am having problems with it working on my ipad. Did the reboot and it worked for a couple of caches then quit again. Also when I did get the info bubble to show up and I clicked on the cache name, it would bounce over to some other place on the page or disappear altogether and I couldn't get it back. HELP!!!

Reboot of iPad sorted it. Thanks goodness. This was a most useful feature to have lost. Thanks to all involved in sorting this.

Actually I carry my ipad out in the field with me and that is when I was able to see the satellite view of an area. The other problem that has come up with this change is that I can no longer click on the cache icon to bring up the cache info bubble (on the ipad, works fine at home on the desktop) I use this feature a lot when ever I'm in an area that I had not done any pre-loading of caches. Don't carry my desktop with me everywhere.

But satellite maps also serve some useful purposes. When I'm urban caching, for example, I like to find paths between houses that lead to greenspaces where caches are located. OpenStreetMap often doesn't show those paths, but I usually can spot them with the satellite map. A workaround is to use the small inset Google map on the cache listing page, but I'm not sure how long that will continue to be an option. Plan B would be to copy-and-paste the coordinates, open another browser window, and use Google Maps to display the coordinates. But that's rather awkward to do repeatedly. Do you carry your laptop with you to look at while you're in the field? Or can you photographically remember the satellite view. I just don't see how a different map can be a huge problem. It's not going to look like that when you get there, unless you're arriving by helicopter. Do you have a smart phone? Does it have an app that uses the maps you like? Just watch. Tomorrow Google maps people are going to wonder why their map hits have dropped a zillion-fold, and take it back. And maybe the new maps are slow, because everyone is looking at once, because of the change. Geocachers are many, we probably have an effect on the pattern now.